Carson’s writing initiated a transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural world and stirred an awakening of public environmental… - Rachel Carson

Such poisoning of waters set aside for conservation purposes could have consequences felt by every western duck hunter and by everyone to whom the sight and sound of drifting ribbons of waterfowl across an evening sky are precious.

We see scientific societies acknowledging as "sustaining associates" a dozen or more giants of a related industry. When the scientific organization speaks, whose voice do we hear-that of science? or of the sustaining industry? It might be a less serious situation if this voice were always clearly identified, but the public assumes it is hearing the voice of science.

"Such plants are "weeds" only to those who make a business of selling and applying chemicals."